Mozart Violin Concertos & Sonata

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Each time I've heard Ray Chen I've been impressed by the way he infuses his performances with spirit and vitality. This apparently instinctive musicianship is joined to beautiful, luminous tone... — Gramophone Magazine, March 2014 More…

Release Date: 13th Jan 2014
Catalogue No: 88765447752
Label: Sony
Length: 66 minutes

Mozart: Violin Concerto No. 3 in G major, K216

Work length26:35

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Ray Chen (violin)
Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival Orchestra
Christoph Eschenbach

I. Allegro

Track length9:49

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II. Adagio

Track length9:57

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III. Rondeau. Allegro

Track length6:49

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Mozart: Violin Concerto No. 4 in D major, K218

Work length23:47

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$5.10

$6.00

Ray Chen (violin)
Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival Orchestra
Christoph Eschenbach

I. Allegro

Track length9:01

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II. Andante cantabile

Track length7:19

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III. Rondo. Andante grazioso

Track length7:27

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Mozart: Violin Sonata No. 22 in A major, K305

Work length16:07

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Ray Chen (violin), Christoph Eschenbach (piano)

I. Allegro di molto

Track length5:10

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II. Theme and Variations. Andante grazioso

Track length10:57

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This is Ray’s first album of all Mozart repertoire. He’s joined by the renowned Mozart-interpreter Maestro Christoph Eschenbach, who conducts the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival Orchestra for the concertos and accompanies Ray for the Violin Sonata. The festival orchestra, founded by Leonard Bernstein in 1987 consists of exceptional young instrumentalists who come together for the annual music festival in northern Germany. Ray composed his own cadenzas for both concertos on this recording.

Winner of the Queen Elisabeth (2009) and Yehudi Menuhin (2008) Competitions, Ray Chen is among the most compelling young violinists today. “Ray has proven himself to be a very pure musician with great qualities such as a beautiful youthful tone, vitality and lightness. He has all the skills of a truly musical interpreter,” said the great Maxim Vengerov.

Ray has released two critically acclaimed albums on Sony: a recital program ‘Virtuoso’ of works by Bach, Tartini, Franck and Wieniawski, and the Mendelssohn and Tchaikovsky concertos with Swedish Radio Orchestra and Daniel Harding. Following the success of these recordings, Ray was profiled by The Strad and Gramophone magazines as “the one to watch”. ‘Virtuoso’ was distinguished with the prestigious ECHO Klassik award. Ray continues to win the admiration of fans and fellow musicians worldwide. In 2012, he became the youngest soloist ever to perform in the televised Nobel Prize Concert for the Nobel Laureates and the Swedish Royal Family. His Carnegie Hall debut with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic and Sakari Oramo, as well as his sold-out Musikverein concert with the Gewandhaus Orchestra and Riccardo Chailly were met with standing ovations.

Followed by over 200,000 people on SoundCloud, Ray Chen looks to expand the classical music audience by increasing its appeal to the young generation via all available social media platforms. He is the first ever classical musician to be invited to write a regular blog about his life as a touring soloist for the largest Italian publishing house, RCS Rizzoli. In his efforts to break down barriers between classical music, fashion and pop culture, he is supported by Giorgio Armani and was recently featured in Vogue magazine.

Born in Taiwan and raised in Australia, Ray was accepted to the Curtis Institute of Music at age 15, where he studied with Aaron Rosand and was supported by Young Concert Artists. He plays the 1702 "Lord Newlands" Stradivarius violin on loan from the Nippon Music Foundation.

Reviews

March 2014

Each time I've heard Ray Chen I've been impressed by the way he infuses his performances with spirit and vitality. This apparently instinctive musicianship is joined to beautiful, luminous tone and polished technique...I'd like to hear more Mozart from Chen and Eschenbach.

7th March 2014

Chen often judiciously eschews vibrato or applies it tastefully and sparingly rather than smothering proceedings in too much Schmaltz...Chen has many gifts: clean, shining tone, secure intonation and sensitive musicianship but he does not yet have the star quality which sets apart artists such as Mutter.

New York Times 26th February 2014

A citrusy-bright sound, clean, elegant phrasing and graceful wit characterize this recording...[Eschenbach] brings seasoned class to the piano part in Mozart’s Sonata No. 22

Mozart Violin Concertos & Sonata

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